This type of intervention is based on the assumption that there is a close relationship between thoughts, emotions and behaviors. For cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, in fact, emotional problems are influenced by the actions and experiences of the lived experience.
The treatment plan is initiated by a psychotherapist and aims to provide the patient with the tools to know how to manage anxiety and change negative beliefs and misperceptions of the mind. What characterizes and distinguishes this approach is, in fact, the explanation of the pathology through the analysis of the structures and cognitive constructions of the individual that contribute to maintaining the anxious symptomatology.
or panic attacks.
In practice, the treatment combines the cognitive component (i.e. it focuses on mental processes) with the behavioral component.
Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy makes use of procedures aimed at modifying not only the manifest behaviors, but also the emotions, attitudes, expectations and beliefs of the subject.
